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Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Using Principal Component Analysis and Machine Learning

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  • 1Department of Medical Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Principal component analysis (PCA) combined with machine learning (ML) effectively distinguishes prostate cancer from benign lesions in MRI scans. This PCA-ML approach improves diagnostic accuracy for early prostate cancer detection.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Machine Learning
  • Oncology

Background:

  • Prostate cancer poses a significant threat to men's health, underscoring the need for precise diagnostic tools.
  • Accurate differentiation between benign and malignant prostate lesions is crucial for effective treatment planning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the efficacy of principal component analysis (PCA) integrated with machine learning (ML) for classifying prostate lesions using MRI.
  • To compare the performance of PCA-transformed features against raw pixel and radiomics features for lesion classification.

Main Methods:

  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 26 prostate cancer patients were analyzed.
  • Principal component analysis (PCA) was employed for feature extraction from MRI images.
  • Random Forest, SVM, and KNN classifiers were utilized to categorize lesions based on extracted features.

Main Results:

  • PCA-based features showed significant separation between benign and malignant tissues (P < 2.2 × 10⁻¹⁶).
  • The Random Forest classifier achieved the highest diagnostic performance with an AUC of 0.909.
  • PCA-enhanced models outperformed raw pixel-based methods, with radiomics features providing further improvements.

Conclusions:

  • PCA-based feature extraction enhances classification accuracy by reducing noise and dimensionality in MRI data.
  • The proposed PCA-ML framework provides an interpretable and efficient method for prostate cancer diagnosis.
  • This approach offers a clinically valuable tool for early and accurate detection of prostate cancer.